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Philly.com | 11 hours ago
Harvard looks to reduce professor ranks
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The dean of Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences said he will reduce the number of professors in an effort to balance a $110 million deficit. Dean Michael Smith told the Harvard Crimson student newspaper...
In this article: Michael Smith, Harvard Crimson, Cambridge, and Massachusetts
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Connecticut Post | 1 day ago
College football game day: Harvard at Yale
RECORDS -- Harvard 6-3, 5-1; Yale 4-5, 2-4 ON AIR -- VERSUS; WELI-AM 960, WYBC-AM 1340 SKINNY -- Yale leads the series 65-52-8 heading into this 126th edition, but Harvard has won seven of the last eight. ... Yale is 11-13-1 against...
In this article: Yale, Harvard, Ivy League, The Tigers, Boston, and Pennsylvania
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NBC | 1 day ago
It's The Game, not a consolation prize for Harvard
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) -A victory over Yale will never be thought of as a consolation prize at Harvard. The Crimson face their historic rivals in the 126th edition of The Game on Saturday, one week after losing to Penn and missing a chance...
In this article: Harvard, Yale, Ivy League, Tim Murphy, Pennsylvania, Cornell, and World War II
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Every Day Should be Saturday | 2 days ago
BACK WHEN HARVARD/YALE WAS GANGSTA LIKE THAT
...of America engage in the kind of bloodsport that made this nation strong. Few players wore helmets, and a close observer declared that as Harvard and Yale pummeled each other, "It was the most magnificent sight … every lineman's face was...
In this article: Yale, Harvard, Boerboel, Polar bear, John Mosby, Filed, Dog, and Georgia Tech
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BC Heights | 5 days ago
Women Suffer Upset In Season-Opener At Harvard
The Boston College women's basketball team watched a win slip through its fingers Saturday night in the season-opener at Harvard University. The Eagles tied the contest with just over two minutes left in the game, but then gave the Crimson...
In this article: Eagles, NCAA, and Boston College
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AP Online | 5 days ago
Harvard defeats William & Mary 87-85 in triple OT
BOSTON (AP) - Jeremy Lin hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer in triple overtime, sealing Harvard's wild 87-85 win over William & Mary in a matchup of the nation's two oldest colleges on Saturday. Up until Lin's game-winning basket, it was...
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Pennsylvania's defense leads way past Harvard 17-7
BOSTON (AP) - The University of Pennsylvania clinched at least a share of the Ivy League title, defeating Harvard 17-7 on Saturday. The Quakers (7-2, 6-0) withstood a late charge from the Crimson, stopping them on three consecutive plays...
In this article: Harvard, Quakers, Pennsylvania, Ivy League, University of Pennsylvania, and Boston
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Lin scores 24 as Harvard beats Holy Cross 87-77
WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) - Jeremy Lin scored 24 points and four other Harvard players scored in double figures to beat Holy Cross 87-77 in the season opener for both teams on Friday night. Dee Giger finished with 13 points for the Crimson.
In this article: Harvard
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Spitzer speaks on corporate integrity at Harvard
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - The head of an ethics program at Harvard University strongly defended the choice of former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer to deliver a lecture on integrity in the nation's financial markets. Spitzer, driven from...
In this article: Eliot Spitzer, Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Law School, New York, Corporate governance, Ivy League, and John F. Kennedy School of Government
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Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. It is also the first and oldest corporation in North America. Administratively, Harvard comprises ten primary academic units.
Initially called "New College" or "the college at New Towne", the institution was renamed Harvard College on March 13, 1639. It was named after a young British clergyman named John Harvard, who bequeathed the College his library of four hundred books and £779 (which was half of his estate), assuring its continued operation. The earliest known official reference to Harvard as a "university" occurs in the new Massachusetts Constitution of 1780.
During his 40-year tenure as Harvard president (1869–1909), Charles William Eliot radically transformed Harvard into the pattern of the modern research university. Eliot's reforms included elective courses, small classes, and entrance examinations. The Harvard model influenced American education nationally, at both college and secondary levels.
Harvard is consistently ranked at or near the top of international college and university rankings, and has the second-largest financial endowment of any non-profit organization (behind the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation), standing at $28.8 billion as of 2008.
- Name:
- Harvard University
- Type:
- Private
- Location City:
- Cambridge
- State:
- MA
- Location Country:
- USA
- Founding Date:
- September 18, 1636
- Head:
- Drew Gilpin Faust
- Endowment:
- USD $25 billion
- Motto:
- Veritas
- Campus:
- Urban
- Mascot:
- John Harvard
- Colors:
- Crimson
- Undergrad:
- 6,714
- Postgrad:
- 12,422
- Faculty:
- about 2,401
- Staff:
- 10,674 medical
- Enrollment:
- 19,140
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